Mazda Lamps factory and Mother's Pride Bakery, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
The industrial site on the far side of Newcastle Road (A34) had two factories. Farthest away from the camera is the Mother's Pride Bakery. This was part of Premier Foods group. Between the 1960s and ...
Meir, Broadway. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Broadway, Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Normacot and Dresden areas near to where ...
Old Town Road and Deep Pit Colliery, Hanley
The view from the end of Old Town road towards Deep Pit Colliery with the winding gear in the centre. The curved building on the right belongs to H & E Smith, tile and fireplace manufacturers.
Deep ...
Oliver Road and the old St Peter's School, Penkhull
Looking east along Oliver Road from just off Hilton Road. In the background are the recent buildings of St Peter's School, which was on Queen's Road in Penkhull. The school closed in 2011 and lay empty ...
Potteries landscape from Navigation Road, Burslem.
Bert Bentley was looking east over Burslem from the top of Navigation Road. Just to the right of the bottle ovens is the short tower of St John's Church (a grade II listed building). The tower is the ...
Queen's Cinema Palace, Jupiter Street. Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent
This cinema was on the north side of Jupiter Street (formerly King Street South) near the corner of Mars Street, just off Ford Green Road. Around the time this photograph was taken, the Palace became ...
Roman Catholic Church, Lower Foundry Street, Hanley
The building on the left was originally the church of St Mary and St Patrick, opened in 1860. the present church of the Sacred Heart on Jasper Street was consecrated in 1911. The church in Lower Foundry ...
Tamms Pottery, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Tamms Pottery, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
It is thought that most of the pottery factory interiors and pottery worker photographs were taken here between 1900-1903. Tamms Pottery was just ...
The American Hotel, 144 Waterloo Road, Burslem
The American Hotel (originally The Waterloo and American Hotel) pictured on Waterloo Road. It was constructed between 1823 and 1832. The building is rectangular in plan with a turret projection. It is ...
Trinity Street and Trinity Street Church, Hanley
Trinity Street Presbyterian Church with its adjoining school building just beyond. The camera is looking up Trinity Street towards Stafford Street. This side of the church is the Royal Insurance Company ...
Uttoxeter Road, Meir
Photograph taken from outside 639 Uttoxeter Road, looking west.
Victoria Street (now Lockwood Street), Baddeley Green.
Looking west along Lockwood Street (formerly Victoria Street) from close to its junction with Baddeley Green Lane. In the distance, the square tower of Norton Church is the highest point visible. At ...
White Swan Inn, Newport Lane, Middleport
The photograph shows the White Swan Inn at 107 Newport Lane, Middleport where there has been an inn or beerhouse since the 1830s. This building was originally two modest semi-detached houses, which had ...